Demanding respect

I can certainly empathize with the outraged Muslims over the cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad. I feel the same outrage over the caricature of Christ, with rapper Kanye West posing as a bloodied Jesus with a crown of thorns on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, as shown in Jonah Goldberg's column in Saturday's paper.

Why is it always OK to parody the most sacred aspects of Christianity and yet when other world religions are attacked, it is cause for dialogue between government and religious diplomats?

I admire the imams of Islam for demanding respect for their prophet. Can we Christians not demand the same respect for our Messiah, the Son of God?